In the Loop: March 2023
Future HERfect: A Grammar and Girl Power Newsletter
March is our favorite month! (Not really, though. We have a complaint or two about the weather.) We celebrated National Grammar Day by silently correcting the signs at the grocery store. We'll raise a pint of Guinness on St. Patrick's Day. We have vaguely witchy plans to celebrate the equinox (it's the meteorological event of the season!).
And you guessed it: March is Women's History Month! This month (and all the other months), we honor and support women in all their endeavors: women in STEM, women in the arts, women in business, academia, media, construction, emergency services, finance, agriculture, education, administration, government, sales, health, law, hospitality, food service, and in the home. We celebrate women who blazed a trail before us, women who continue to fight the good fight today, and women who will wage new battles in the future.
This month's themed Spotify playlist (click on the image below) includes more than 35 women's names in the track titles. Is YOUR name featured? (Ours are.)
Editing Q&A: Girls on Film
MLA
Wilde, Olivia, director. Booksmart. Annapurna Pictures, 2019.
Chicago
Polley, Sarah, dir. Women Talking. 2022; Los Angeles, CA: Orion Pictures.
Leder, Mimi, dir. 2018. On the Basis of Sex. Universal City, CA: Focus Features.
APA
Miller, G. (Director). (2015). Mad Max: fury road [Film]. Village Roadshow Pictures; Kennedy Miller Mitchell; Rat-Pac-Dune Entertainment
Hey Ladies: A Playlist for That Girl
What's the Diff?
There are a lot of sneaky words out there—words with similar spellings, similar sounds, or just similar vibes. Here’s the lowdown on some of those commonly swapped-by-accident words.
Gibe (v.): To gibe is to utter taunting or sneering words. For example, “He made a gibe about the weight of his female colleague.” Gross, right?
Jibe (v.): Originally, jibe was a variant spelling of gibe and they had the same disparaging meaning. Over time, however, jibe has come to mean “to be in harmony or accord” or “to agree.” You might say, “wage disparity based on gender just doesn’t jibe with me.”
Jive (v.): As a verb, jive means to say glib, foolish, or deceptive stuff, especially unserious things (think “jive talking,” if that helps). But language keeps changing, and jive has a synonym for both gibe (taunt) and jibe (make sense, fit in) since the 1940s. As a noun, though, it refers to jazz or swing. You should probably just watch “Jumpin Jive” with Cab Calloway and the Nicholas Brothers.
Cool Guide: She Needed a Hero (So She Became One)
Stuff We Like
Girls kicking ass on The Boys.
Check out the complete list of Time’s Women of the Year for 2023.
An awful lot of lady parts have been named after men.
Feminist icons Radhika Jones (Vanity Fair) and Gloria Steinem (Ms.) have a little chat.
Amazing female Bolivian skateboarders shred in traditional dress.
The backlash has arrived for #MeToo.
“Thanks! It has pockets!” The bewildering politics and history behind witches’ women’s pockets.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie discusses feminism for dummies with Trevor Noah.
From an 1859 issue of The Atlantic: Should women learn the alphabet? Tough call.
The women of SNL did not perform a feminist anthem, because that is way too hard.
New technology, same old bullshit. ChatGPT and misogynoir.
Have you seen the Kung Fu nuns of the Himalayas?
What if we just all agreed to be sexy aunties doing Zumba?
Gibson Girls of 1904 rock the frock as they clock in for work.
An excellent reading list for March.
Pay It Forward
Meet NK Gutiérrez!
Classically trained dancer, vocalist, actor, and filmmaker NK Gutiérrez has excelled in nearly every facet of entertainment, from HBO Latino to the Oprah Winfrey Show. Most recently, she has booked recurring roles in Showtime’s The Chi, NBC’s Chicago Fire, and her 4th run of the hit show, La Gringa, at the 2022 Puerto Rican International Theater Festival in San Juan.
NK's super power is galvanizing community for good and she shares this through foundational mindset and movement coaching and programming. In 2017, NK deepened her roots in the space of body activism and social justice through her athleisure line, THICKLETIC, which works to elevate the ideology around wellness inclusivity by cultivating conversation, clothing, and community.
NK currently serves as the co-chair of the Black Harvest Film Festival at the Gene Siskel Film Center, Head of Programming for the XL Festival, and Co-lead of the Film Club at Soho House Chicago.
Read NK's raw, honest, lyrical post, Ride Responsibly, over on our blog. Content warning: This is NK's abortion story.
